Trousers stretcher and hanger.



PATENTED SEPT. 13, 1904.

L. GEISERT.

TROUSERS STRETOHBR AND HANGER.

APPLICATION TILED APR. 14, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

INVENTEIF Patented September 13, 1904.

LEWVIS GEISERT, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

TROUSERS STRETOHER AND HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 769,694, dated September 13, 1904.

Application filed April 14, 1903. Serial No. 152,536. 4N0 model.)

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Be it known that I, LEwIs GEIsER'r, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Brooklyn, city of New York, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in (llothes-I Iangers, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a clothes-hanger of an extremely simple and cheap form of construction more especially designed and adapted for use as a hanger for pantaloons or trousers.

Such invention consists, in substance, of a device of resilient spring wire or sheet consisting usually of a central supporting-loop for suspending the same, the ends of which loop end in top wires or pieces extendingoutward from said loop on opposite sides in the same plane, each of which top wires or pieces extends at the end first downward and then upward to substantially the height of the top wires or pieces and then downward again to the bottom of the first loop, the end 9 being sprung outward away from one another at the bottom ends.

My said invention is fully shown and described in the following specificatiomof which the accompanying drawings form a part, wherein similar numerals of reference designate like or equivalent parts wherever found throughout the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved clothes-hanger and illustrating a part of the trousers-leg. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a blank of a slightlymodih'ed form of construction of such device, the same being in this case constructed of resilient sheet metal instead of wire out of which the form is to be made, the lines upon which the same is to be bent being shown in dotted lines. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of such blank, showing the relative position of the downwardlyextending arms in dotted lines; and Fig. 6 is a top plan view of Fig. 4, showing in dotted lines the position of the arms.

ieferring to the drawings, to form the device, as shown in Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, a

piece of strong resilient wire, usuallyof springsteel of considerable stiffness, is first out into a suitable length to form the entire device and is then bent at the center into a suitable central hanger or supporting-loop 1, which may be of any suitable form, but is usually of the open-at-the-bottom form shown in the drawings. In any event outward from the loop on opposite sides extend in opposite directions and in the same plane the main bars 2, each of which turns downward at substantially a right angle at the proper point to form a back wire 3, which is usually from one and three-quarter inchesto three inches in length, such back wire 3 folding back at the bottom a, so as to form a tight loop 5 of the same length as the back wire by the upward extension of a center wire 6, which when it reaches the top wire 2 loops forward again in a somewhat looser spring-loop 7 into a front wire 8, such front wire usually ending at the bottom in a turned-back portion 9, as shown.

As shown in the drawings, the depending centrally-slotted supporting resilient spring ends of the hanger formed by the front, center, and back wires, of which the space between the center wire 6 and the front wire 8 forms the garment-receiving slot, (designated by 10,) are in each case spread outward at the bottom, so that in order to insert them in the trousers-legs they must be pressed toward one another, and after insertion, being released from pressure, they will by the springing back into position through their natural resiliency assist in supporting the garment.

In order to insert the device in a pair of trousers, the inner side of the bottom of one leg thereof is passed up into the slot 10 of both the spring ends to the top thereof and the corresponding inner side of the other leg drawn up into the same slot adjacent thereto, as shown in the drawings, so that the hangerlegs formed by the back wire 3 and center wire 6 will be within one leg and the hangerlegs formed by the front wire 8 will be in the other leg, and when in this position it will be found that the resiliency of the end portion of the device will hold the trousers firmly in position, and before or after hanging up a suitable device may be secured to the waist portion of the trousers, so as to stretch the same for any desired period.

In Fig. 4: I have shown a device of substantially similar form and working in precisely the same manner, differing from the device shown in Figs. 1 to 3 only in that instead of being formed of springwire the same is formed of resilient sheet metal first stamped out in the form of a suitable sheet-metal blank and then bent into proper form to constitute the completed hanger, the form of the blank used to form such hanger being shown in Fig. 4:; and it will be seen that in the wire form of my invention shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 the two wires bent back upon themselves at 5 together form what may be termed the back wire or prong, which is to be inserted into one leg of the trousers, while the wire 8 forms the prong which is inserted into the same side of the other leg, as shown in Fig. 2.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. A trousers-hanger adapted to be attached to the lower or leg end of the garment, formed of a single piece of resilient spring metal having a central supporting-loop from Which ex tend in the same plane in opposite directions straight main bars each ending in a securingbar formed of a back prong, and a front prong parallel with the back prong, and in substantially the plane or parallel with the plane which passes through the said porting-loop.

2. A trousers-hanger adapted to be attached to the lower or leg end of the garment, formed main bars and the supof a single piece of resilient spring metal having a central supporting-loop from which extend in the same plane in opposite directions straight main bars each ending in a securingbar formed of a double-wire back prong, and a single-wire front prong parallel with the back prong, such back prong and front prong extending at substantially a right angle to the main bars, and in substantially the plane or parallel with the plane which passes through the said main bars and the supporting-loop.

3. A trousers-hanger adapted to be attached to the lower or leg end of the garment, formed of a single piece of resilient spring-wire having a central supporting-loop from which extend in the same plane in opposite, directions straight main bars each ending in a securingbar formed of a double-wire back prong, and a single-wire front prong parallel with the adjacent back prong, extending at substantially a right angle to the main bars, the lower ends of the single-wire front prongs being bent inward toward the central supporting-loop, the proportions of the parts and the resiliency of the metal being such that when the abutting edges of the two trousers-legs are passed up into the space between each set of front and back prongs such legs will be tightly stretched and also forced together by the natural resiliency of the metal.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

LEWIS GEISERT.

Witnesses:

OSCAR A. MICHEL, A. E. \VEs'rLoToRN. 

